Really saw the differance in not having Rob Gronkowski out there for New England last night. To me these were the two best teams in football going at it and each can probably feel nothing has changed after that game. The Niners probably can't play much better than that and the Pats can figure with their all world TE back they'll be good enough to match up in the Superbowl.

Matthew Stafford hasn't thrown a pick in four games this year. I can't believe how little people talk about his fall off.

Stafford probably hasn't been as good as he wsa last year, but INTs aren't the end-all-be-all of stats. Drew Brees leads the league in interceptions and he has more games with multiple picks (5) than with no picks (4). Eli Manning is tied with Stafford for 5th in the league in picks. He also has 5 games with multiple picks. Try saying either of those guys aren't ELITE QBs and you're likely to get lynched. Stafford needs to be better but a lot of INTs are going to happen when you are throwing the ball four times more per game than the next highest.

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I don't disagree that he thinks he's so good that he makes calls more difficult, but last night...

They made it difficult because there is no possible way you can conslusively overturn the call on the field. And it would've been illegal touching if the first player to touch it (Patriot) had run out of bounds first.